Litherland High School Liverpool, UK
The design for Litherland High School creates an innovative learning environment - a radical departure from traditional, institutional school buildings.
The scheme comprises three elements: the Bar, which houses the large volumes (sports hall, dining and drama); the Ribbon, which has both traditional and open teaching spaces, and the linking glazed Atrium, providing areas for exhibitions and break-out dining. The Bar shields the school from excessive solar gain, allowing the teaching spaces to envelop the outdoor play spaces, enhancing passive surveillance.
Classrooms have mixed-mode heating and ventilation systems with a heat exchanger. Other sustainability initiatives include a rainwater collection for toilet flushing; a biomass boiler; natural ventilation to the large volumes and surface-water-retaining swale. A solar hot water generator and a wind turbine are used as educational devices, with their outputs used within the Science department and displayed on screens throughout the school.
- Client
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- Litherland High School
- Employer
- Kier Education
- Size
- 10,900 m2
- Completion
- 2011
- Awards
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- British Council for School Environment - Shortlisted
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